Sometimes you may need to update Horde forcefully due to a database or MySQL version upgrade/downgrade. Additionally, if Horde is not “saving” user preferences or remembering last logins, you can force upgrade Horde by executing following command: /usr/local/cpanel/bin/update-horde –force Please note that it will drop the existing Horde Database and will create a new database. […]
Read MorecPanel doesn’t know user, or you can’t find the user in WHM * There aren’t account neither in “List Accounts” neither in “Show Reseller Accounts” * Check on /var/cpanel/users/username. Make sure the user is owned by the correct account. It should also have a “DNSX=domain.com” line. * Execute the following commands: # /scripts/updateuserdomains # /scripts/rebuildcpusers […]
Read MoreSometimes you’ll find a bunch of stale or malicious processes that need to be killed. When a killall won’t grab them, use this simple for loop to kill -9 each of them individually from the ps output. Simply replace the name= variable with the PID’s name or a string from the process list. # name="perl" […]
Read MoreFor users that are behind a firewall it might be required that you enable passive ftp in the customer’s ftp server and client. While enabling passive ftp in your ftp client is simple, doing so in your ftp server configuration files might be a bit tricky if you don’t know what you are doing. This […]
Read MoreDuring an upcp, or visible on cPanel WHM you may encounter an error that says: Warning: language cache is out of date. It is being rebuilt now Can’t locate Class/Std.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/cpanel /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi […] Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 3. …propagated at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/base.pm line 85. BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at […]
Read More/var/cpanel/accounting check /tmp for nobody check /etc/passwd /var/log/secure rkhunter # find / -perm +4000 > ~/suids # searches for all suid files and outputs to ~/suids file Share on FacebookTweet
Read MoreSizes does matter! # umount -l /tmp # dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/tmpDSK bs=1024 count=1024000 # mkfs.ext3 /usr/tmpDSK # mount -o loop,rw,noexec,nosuid /usr/tmpDSK /tmp Share on FacebookTweet
Read MoreSymptom: Internal cPanel/WHM pages are returning blank pages or index.php for download.
Read MoreThe latest version of the compact Firefox Plugin which reads from multiple Nagios installations can be downloaded here. This plug-in is great for notifications, and can be extensively configured to filter by event type, severity, and several other factors. In addition, it also includes the default nagios sound alerts which can also be turned off […]
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Erik
Monday, October 26, 2009
linux administration - tips, notes and projects
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